I just saw the first news regarding arrests for Zotob: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050826/D8C7K9NO3.html

It seems that the work we are doing together with the different policies starts to pay off

Roger

It seems that SANS is expecting that the exploits for our August patches or for the vulnerability in the Veritas Backup software will be integrated in a worm pretty soon. To quote them: "there are enough exploits for these vulnerabilities known to be in the wild that we believe it is only a matter of hours or at most days until they are integrated into a worm.".

In the last few months, SANS has been pretty offensive with warnings but we have for sure to further look at the situation in the next few days.

http://isc.sans.org/

Roger

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) just released a pretty interesting e-Learning Course regarding "Security in the Information Age".

I personally think that ir somewhere opens up the IT-Security-Guy's mind:

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/crn/activities/elearning.information-age.cfm

Roger

Well, I have seen several virus alerts on Level 2 from F-Secure without actually atking off. But this time there is a huge difference: When Slammer broke out, I have been on vacation. When Blaster took off - I have been on vacation. Since an hour, I am on vacation and just in this moment, F-secure issued a warning... : http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

Let's see where this leads to

Roger

I do not know whether you know John Pescatore, Gartner. He is definitely not, what you can call a Microsoft fan. Today he seems to have made the following statement:

"It [Vista] is going to remove the low-hanging fruit. It is going to make it that much harder for dumb spyware to work," said John Pescatore, an analyst with Gartner. "What it will really do is start forcing the threats further up the food chain," he added.

Read the full story here.

Roger